【推荐1】“Hi! How are you?” A woman smiled as she took the seat beside me. She had to lower herself slowly, squeezing her fat body into the seat, ________ all available space. I ________ a little towards the window, feeling worried silently about the long hours of ________ I was going to experience with this monster (巨物) beside me.

She said, “My name is Laura. I’m from Britain. If we’re going to spend six hours side by side on this ________, we’d better be friends.” Then she started a conversation with me and didn’t ________ my unfriendly reactions. She talked ________ about herself and her trip to Hong Kong.

I gave her one-word answers to her questions about me. Not affected by my ________, she nodded as she made ________ about my answers. She was warm and considerate, ________ that I had room to stretch in my seat.

I couldn’t help but let down my ________ slowly. Laura was an interesting conversationalist. During our conversation, Laura ________ to make every crew member on the plane who ________ us walk away laughing at her jokes.

I asked Laura, “Have you ever ________ losing some weight?” “No. I don’t trust the advertisements from slimming centers at all.” “You aren’t worried about the diseases that come with being ________? Not at all. You only ________ the diseases if you’re worried about your weight all the time. I eat ________ and walk regularly; I’m this size ________ I was born to be big! There is more to life than worrying about weight all day long.” She drank her wine. “Besides, God gave me so much ________ that I need a bigger body to hold all of it! Why would I lose weight to lose my happiness?”

________ by her unusual reasoning, I smiled. I suddenly ________ that Laura was the most beautiful woman I had ever met in my life.

【推荐2】A couple of days ago, my 9­year­old son and I were shopping at a grocery store (食品杂货店). At the checkout, a mother was trying to understand her bill. She didn't have enough _______ for her milk and cheese. The manager _______ the items (商品) from her cart and carried them away to the fridge section.

There had been _______ when I myself didn't have money to buy groceries my family needed, but today was _______. It was payday so there we stood in line with our groceries.

I whispered to my son and told him to run and get the _______ back with the items. He was confused. He didn't understand me. I was trying to do an act of kindness, but it went _______.

The lady left with her son and _______ groceries than she had planned. I told the checkout guy to _______ me for her milk and cheese and that we'd run to the parking lot and _______ her up. He said “You'd do that？” and I said “Yes, I want to make sure they have what they ________.”

He quickly called the manager back. I paid for my items and hers and my son and I ran to the parking lot where we ________ we would find the lady. But the mom and her son were ________ and with them went my opportunity to gift these small but ________ items.

I felt ________ for not speaking up and telling her what I wanted to do for her. If I had told her about it, I wouldn't have ________ the chance of doing a good deed. Perhaps because of this our future acts will be delivered with speed, as it is intended and necessary for love and kindness.

【推荐3】I had been staring at the white walls of the video game store for about 2 hours since lunch. It was a very _________ day. I glanced at the table in front of the store, and my heart _________. It was the donation table for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda and even though I had donated what I could, I _________ felt sad whenever I saw the people on the TV suffering.

I was broken out of my _________ when the doors got open. Customers, _________!

She was a small girl about 10 or 11. Her mother was accompanying her with a few plastic bags. I _________ her mom. When I was selling cigarettes on the street, I saw her selling clothes she _________herself at the market.

The daughter just had a _________ and her mom finally had _________ money to buy a PS3 and some games.

The girl half-jogged, half-skipped to my counter. She __________ her backpack and pulled out a console(操纵板). Her mom handed me the bag full of games.

“Can I __________ this?”

“Sure sweetie, no problem.”

I inspected the console and the games, and nothing was opened. According to our __________, I returned the __________ to the mom. She handed it to the girl. And the girl ran off as fast as her little feet could take her. I was about to ask when the mom, seeing my __________, explained, “She wants to sell her birthday __________, so she can donate to the __________.”

She was __________ to give up what was supposed to be hers and gave to those __________. That's real generosity out there.

________ I was watching her talking to the girl at the donations table, I was reminded that even though there are a lot of __________ people in the world, there are still those people just like that little girl.